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Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Attempting to Fly - Anaglyph
1909
An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation.
Walking and Talking Robot
February 15, 1957
John Fischer, age 11, demonstrates his invention, a "walking and talking" robot. The robot's eyes light up, and it rolls back and forth on a platform.
Atomic Energy
Students and teacher in classroom demonstrating an experiment with atomic energy.
Northwest Airlines Airplane
1948
A Northwest Airlines passenger plane sits on the tarmac.
Man Holding Slipover Bowling Shoe
April 10, 1945
A man, possibly inventor Leo Kay, holding a slipover bowling shoe, which attaches to a regular street shoe.
Vote Recording Machine
1919
Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
